The Kiwifarms Unofficial Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
Alright, the poll is up and the theme is “Patrick Tomlinson and Similar Geniuses”.
We have only the best, most respected, and intelligent books to choose from, it’ll be great.
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stupid frog said:
Voted for Onision, even though I read it back on lolcow when it came out chapter at a time lol....
Someone send me a zip of all these lolcow books plsssssssss ty
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Get them here, folder 05


The things I have to do for the community...
 
Adr1anD said:
His book is a fantasy one. A bit surprised this guy hasn't been mentioned ITT.
Book's title is "Shadow of the Conqueror".
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Shadmaniversity is most notable for pretending to be a medieval combat expert while being fatter than Fatrick, and pretending to be as good an artist as his famous artist brother (of Drawing with Jazza fame) because he can semi-competently prompt genAI, and getting into enormous spergfests over it.

Pair that with his mormon rape book, if this guy isn't a lolcow with a thread yet, I don't know why (but also don't care enough to check)
 
Adr1anD said:
His book is a fantasy one. A bit surprised this guy hasn't been mentioned ITT.
Book's title is "Shadow of the Conqueror".
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Despite all the shilling of his shit book in his videos, barely anyone is aware of it.
Nick Obre said:
Pair that with his mormon rape book, if this guy isn't a lolcow with a thread yet, I don't know why (but also don't care enough to check)
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It's probably because Shadiversity remains largely irrelevant and people who know about his rape fantasy book and are also interested in lolcow culture are not that many and he usually stays in his tiny grifter niche.

Anyways, Shadow of the Conqueror really reads like that fetish rape book Linkara wrote as a kid, it's truly uncanny. Combine it with his politisperging and copy of Josh Luna complex of extreme envy of their more successful artist brother and you get a really lolcowish mix.
 
Bioniclelover said:
Despite all the shilling of his shit book in his videos, barely anyone is aware of it.
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Barely anyone is aware of him and those who are in their audience, like most of the "history/HEMA"-youtuber fans aren't the type to read books, otherwise, they'd read actual shit and realize they're smarter than those fags.
Yes, I am gatekeeping being a history fan.
 
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It's the last day of the month, the voting is finished, and of course the one and only Patrick S. Tomlinson won!
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The book for Feburary is Gate Crashers, enjoy stalker child.
 
CIS White Droid said:
So I just finished the first chapter of Gate Crashers and, so far, it reads exactly like a high school creative writing project done by someone that just binge watched season one of The Expanse. This one's gonna be a slog.
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I agree, it's definitely a slog. I'm bothered by the description of an object in space as "not moving" without providing a reference.

Despite the constant quips and attempts at humor the first laugh I've had was in chapter 9, at the line "a hack wouldn't write that dialogue", because one did.
 
Fuck it, I'm facetanking the philosophical horror of Permutation City to put off Tomlinson a bit longer.

Edit: Now assured by Greg Egan that there was probably some version of himself that was not reading Gate Crashers, this Crowabunga cringed like an embarrassed child as he was subjected to Tomlinson's opening salvo of trite analogies.
 
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Here's a fun question, how many of you all have read Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, or Clark Ashton Smith?

What are your favorite Lovecraft Circle members?
 
Old King Koaleamos said:
Here's a fun question, how many of you all have read Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, or Clark Ashton Smith?
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I gave all three quite a bit of a read. For Lovecraft, I think I read most of his Cthulhu/Dream cycle plus some other short stories. For REH, all of Conan and Kull, some of Solomon, some of Bran and some of his historical fiction works. As for CAS, I've read all of Zothique and quite a bit of his Hyborian and Lovecraftian inspired works, as well as other random short stories. The pale flame was it?
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What are your favorite Lovecraft Circle members?
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I'm leaning slightly towards REH, tho Lovecraft's very close to him and is arguably more directly influential (I think Frazzetta's the secret ingredient for Conan's fame). The issue is, I can find good Conan inspired media. Hell, the first one that I picked up, Brak the Barbarian, turned out great. I, however, can't find good Lovecraft inspired media. Someone recently recommended The Fisherman by Langan, and while it's a good story, it's not a good Lovecraft story. I tried The book of Cthulhu and it also fell flat, except for one tale, that being, IIRC The Tugging, the rest were either mediocre or shit.
 
Old King Koaleamos said:
Here's a fun question, how many of you all have read Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, or Clark Ashton Smith?

What are your favorite Lovecraft Circle members?
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I've read works from all three with Smith being my least read. Howard is my favorite but I've enjoyed many stories from various mythos contributors. A personal favorite is The House of the Worm by Mearle Prout.
 
LordOfZhbagva said:
I gave all three quite a bit of a read. For Lovecraft, I think I read most of his Cthulhu/Dream cycle plus some other short stories. For REH, all of Conan and Kull, some of Solomon, some of Bran and some of his historical fiction works. As for CAS, I've read all of Zothique and quite a bit of his Hyborian and Lovecraftian inspired works, as well as other random short stories. The pale flame was it?

I'm leaning slightly towards REH, tho Lovecraft's very close to him and is arguably more directly influential (I think Frazzetta's the secret ingredient for Conan's fame). The issue is, I can find good Conan inspired media. Hell, the first one that I picked up, Brak the Barbarian, turned out great. I, however, can't find good Lovecraft inspired media. Someone recently recommended The Fisherman by Langan, and while it's a good story, it's not a good Lovecraft story. I tried The book of Cthulhu and it also fell flat, except for one tale, that being, IIRC The Tugging, the rest were either mediocre or shit.
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Sword and Sorcery is its own thing. Howard's the big genesis of it, but there's plenty more. Hell, Lovecraft Circle members did a ton of work. Fritz Leiber's a great writer of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. He was a Lovecraft mentee. However, he's probably the second most important Sword and Sorcery writer of all time with his Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser series. C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner were Lovecraft Circle members who did Sword and Sorcery (and also got married too). Moore did Jirel of Joiry, the first female written S&S works with one of the first female S&S protags. Kuttner did Elak of Atlantis and Prince Raynor. Lots of S&S. Michael Moorcock, John Jakes, Gardner Fox, Howard Andrew Jones, David Drake, David Gemmell, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Shea etcetera.

Lovecraft's an odd duck. Try his Circle members. Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Donald/Howard Wandrei, Carl Jacobi, and the rest all contributed. YMMV.



In terms of Lovecraft Circle stuff I enjoyed, there's Hugh B. Cave's weird fiction. He lasted a long time.
 
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